21GZoning controls for Zone No 11 (b)—the Green Square Town Centre Public Domain Zone

21G Zoning controls for Zone No 11 (b)—the Green Square Town Centre Public Domain Zone

21G Zoning controls for Zone No 11 (b)—the Green Square Town Centre Public Domain Zone

(1) What are the objectives of the zone? The objectives of Zone No 11 (b) are—

(a) to provide for a well-balanced structural layout of public spaces and built areas within the Green Square Town Centre, and

(b) to establish a significant new people-oriented public town square, interconnected streets and other vibrant public plazas and public spaces that are designed to be safe, functional and visually interesting places to use, and that will provide appropriate settings for a range of people and varied social activities, and

(c) to promote the vitality of the public domain by encouraging public cultural expression, and

(d) to allow for equitable access to, within and across the Green Square Town Centre for pedestrians, cyclists, public transport and other vehicles, and

(e) to accommodate and integrate the management of stormwater (including floodwater) into the functional design of the public domain, and

(f) to allow for the construction of buildings within the public domain where impacts on the amenity of the public domain spaces, and on adjoining buildings (both existing and future), can be demonstrated to be satisfactory, and

(g) to allow for the construction of a below-ground communal car park and retail facilities in a certain part of the public domain.

The spatial proportions and location of Zone No 11 (b) are intended to provide an appropriate level of public amenity to support the intensity of development and mix of uses in Zone No 11 (a).

(2) What does not require development consent? Any development that is identified in a plan of management adopted by the Council under the Local Government Act 1993 and that does not involve the creation of any gross floor area.

Development for the purpose of—

gardening; landscaping.

Exempt development referred to in clause 10A.

(3) What requires development consent? Any development that is identified in a plan of management adopted by the Council under the Local Government Act 1993 and that involves the creation of gross floor area.